Do you remember?

[firestorm_al]

>Children Today Haven't Lived!
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> If you're not smiling by the end of this, then what on earth were you
doing when you were young?!
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> Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
this...............
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> Close your eyes and go back in time...
> Before the Internet...
> Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
> Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
> Way back........
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> I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
> The corner shop.
> Hopscotch.
> Butterscotch.
> Skipping.
> Handstands.
> Football with an old can.
> Fingerbob.
> Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.
> Roly Poly.
> Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
> The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
> Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
> An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.
> Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a
screwball. Wait......
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> Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
Childrens Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang, The Tomorrow
People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or staying up for Doctor
Who.
> When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like
going somewhere.
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> Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
> White dog sh1t.
> Sticky fingers.
> Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
> Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
> Climbing trees.
> Building igloos out of snow banks.
> Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
> Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach
hurt.
> Jumping on the bed.
> Pillow fights.
> Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
> Being tired from playing....remember that?
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> The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
> Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
> Choppers and Grifters.
> Eating raw jelly.
> Orange squash ice pops.
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> Remember when...
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> There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop
>Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E.
> You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
> It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
> You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve.
> When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
> When 25p was decent pocket money
> Curly Wurlys.
> Space Dust.
> Toffo's.
> Top Trumps.
> When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
> When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there.
> When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry
groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
> When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate the
awaited a misbehaving student at home.
> Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by
shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
> Parents and Grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are
still afraid of them.
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> Didn't that feel good?
> Just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
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> Remember when....
> Decisions were made by going " Ip Dip Dog sh1t "
> "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
> Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly".
> The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
>And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
> It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
> Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.
> Nobody was prettier than Mum.
> Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
> Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
> Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
> Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
> Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.

> If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
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[Stormtrooper]

god i must be older than i thought i remember some of them
but you missed out the banana spilts kids show!!

[Loopy]

What a blinding list !

Made me go all bleary eyed.

[vtrjock]

Fekkin ell ! I nearly scored 100% !! Cool list Al....whatever happened to that white dogshit stuff? I was always sure that Milky bars had someat to do with it? err...not that I miss it like ! Yuk